On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:36:52PM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote: > Andreas Dilger wrote: >> On Jun 09, 2008 19:33 +0200, santi@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ... >>> Running fsck with a 64bit LiveCD will solve the problem? >> Yes, I suspect with a 64-bit kernel you could allocate the full 4GB of RAM >> for e2fsck and be able to check the filesystem. > > Couldn't you achieve the same thing just by enabling PAE on your 32-bit > kernel? No, that doesn't increase the amount address space available to the user process, which is the limitation here. You can have 16 GB of physical memory, but 2**32 is still 4GB, and the kernel needs address space, so that means userspace will have at most 3GB of space to itself. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
